Pessimist Quotes
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein -
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala -
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde -
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wilde -
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain -
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde -
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner -
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. Paul Getty -
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez -
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."
Yvon Chouinard -
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
Nate Lowman
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell -
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
Vaclav Havel -
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Idries Shah -
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay -
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain -
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Eugene O'Neill
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I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
Phil Anselmo Pantera -
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah -
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.
Vaclav Havel -
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.
Nicki Minaj